RTDNA honours CBC with 24 national broadcast awards

CBC collected numerous awards this weekend — both national and regional — from the RTDNA, the organization that represents broadcast journalists in Canada.

The awards were presented Saturday night at a gala in Toronto. Some of the many CBC winners included CBC News, CBC Radio One, The National and The Current, as well as many regional award-winners.

CBC Edmonton received the Dan McArthur Awards for in-depth/investigative reporting in both the radio and TV categories.

Reporter Marion Warnica and producer Gillian Rutherford won for their radio documentary, "What happened to Betty Anne Gagnon?" The piece chronicled the horrific, prolonged abuse inflicted on a developmentally delayed woman by her sister and brother-in-law, in the months leading up to the woman’s death.

The newsroom’s investigative unit, comprised of reporters Charles Rusnell and Jennie Russell, received the TV award for “Imported Politics.”

CBC Calgary's 2013 flood coverage won multiple awards.

CBC's British Columbia journalists won 10 RTDNA awards, for work on everything from the B.C. election to lawn bowling.

CBC Saskatchewan won the RTDNA diversity award and in the Maritimes, a story about bottle collectors in Moncton, N.B., won the Dick Smyth Award for creative use of sound.

The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) awards are the most prestigious broadcast awards for journalists working in the industry in Canada.

They honour the best in the field in programming, stations and news gathering organizations in radio, television and on digital platforms.